“In America, electric cars have the same cachet as golf carts.”

Jay Leno, on plans to promote electric vehicles by challenging celebrities such as Tom Cruise to race them on Leno’s TV show (Wired).

“The Egyptians are really in a mess.”

Galal Amin on Cairo’s rubbish-filled streets, since its street-cleaning pigs were slaughtered during the swine flue scare (New York Times).